Classic Boston noir thriller from global bestseller Robert B. Parker - one of contemporary crime fiction''s most popular and acclaimed authors.
When a young journalist researching the cocaine trade in a small Massachusetts town is found murdered, private detective Spenser is called in to find out who is responsible. Wheaton isn''t just any small town though - Spenser soon discovers it''s one of the biggest cocaine distribution centres in the Northeast. But the local drugs cartel are not the only suspects - did the journalist get too close to the truth, or too close to the wife of a very jealous man?
''One of the great series in the history of the American detective story'' New York Times